THE GARDENERS' CHR0NICL1 



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,rea g chin g Glb 8 .ia weight has ever yet 

 _- A memorandum of Bicton Gardens has been given at 



leaviest Queen that has come under your notice, or 



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set* are then ,..■•■.■ 1 in !.-l.r, neh s.,1, in 4-inch pots; 

 th.-v an- th.-ri i. -.. !• -1 d -*n to wi-hm 4 indies of the 

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p. 599, 1846, as well a, in the " Horticultural Society's 

 Journal," it is stated that three Queens had been 

 ed by me, one of which weighed 6* lbs., 



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But allowing 6« lbs. to be 6 lbs. 8 oz., the way in 

 which Fine weights are generally stated, I may mention 

 that the above Pine did weigh and turn the scale full at 



the juice oozing Iron: it, and having to travel by coach, 



reduced in weight. The above three Queens were, 

 how.v.r, not exhibited as fruit of superior culture, as I 

 stated at the time, but as fruit produced under peculiar 

 circumstances. The three fruit together weighed up- 

 wards of 18 lbs. ; and poor Pines as they may have 

 been, 1 have never observed any record of three 

 similar fruit having been exhibited by anybody else, 

 though I have observed since in the Chronicle,?. 742, 

 for 1846, that some Queen Pines had been exhibited at 

 Regent-street, as remarkable specimens, without any 



upon what principle these fruit had been grown, which 



e principle, which he p')intt 



--growers, a complicated retrograding system; : 



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j, and I a boy, then in practice too, I had the pie; 

 i of seeing and assisting in carrying into effect, to 

 .e extent, the vaulting system— of applying * — 



its' fTowering, 1S itTai "end out lateral floSrbjf'fcJgJ 



winter decoration, it holds the first rank in the (U? 

 house, on account of its beauty and the length S 

 it continues in bloom. It succeeds in a mixture of Z! 

 light peat and leaf-mould. For a more detaileiJ 

 count of this plant, see the " Journal of the Hor^. 







application of fresh mat 



Foreign Correspondence. 



Bologna, Nov. 23.— From Trieste we proc 

 1 visited the Botanic Garden, s 



iad set u there iu 1837. It is in a part of Vei 

 he most remote and unfrequented ; now be. 



Nation. The garden looks healthy and flc 



hough the collection is not lar] 



iO years ago by Ruckinger, the father (now i 



everal of them large of their age, especially & 

 ileditschia. In the houses are a good many 

 ilants— an Opuntia with yellow blussoms.with i 



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mainland there are said to be sea 



are those trees and shrubs which are known i ^ 



is usually a shrub, or which I had onlj ^ 

 situations most protected from d e P redatloa f ^^, 



attain 20 reet. is here a strong tree of about .^ #& 



looking. The other trees of the same ^.^ 



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plant , a l'orliena makes a 



showy. , .. ^p 



Of private gardens I could only hear of JJ ^ 



seeiue-oue belongin- to Mr. Treves, a w«r*3j*- 



- r *« °"p„. °. fr. .L hothouse : and another «JrT 



;;ng to raLL " 

 ;able for its fane. 





Styrian, and Carniolian i'oiatous an 

 Trieste to Malta, the Ionian islands, 

 Levant The disease is very prevalei 



